Your Brain
These carry out the work of the brain region where they are located, manufacture neurotransmitters can carry the instructions for every single thing your body des or feels.
What are neurons?
These tiny but powerful influencers in our bodies instruct cells how to produce enzymes and pass these instructions to the next generation.
What are genes?
This man popularized the terms: id, ego, super ego.
Who was Freud?
Ancient Egyptians AND people in the Middle Ages thought that mental problems were largely caused by this.
What are demons?
These behaviors occur automatically in your body, without thought or planning.
What are reflexive behaviors?
This type of gene is the more determinating gene in a pair of genes, identified as the capital letter in the pair.
What is dominant?
This well-known behavioral psychologist worked with rats, rewards and boxes to prove he could control their behavior.
Who was Skinner?
One popular remedy for mental illness in ancient and medieval times was this.
What is exorcism or flogging or persecution?
This neurotransmitter influences mood, energy, attention, metabolism, sleep, hunger, and more.
What is seratonin?
This debate has been raging for years among psychologists and refers to whether a person is most heavily influenced by their genetic makeup or the environment they were raised in.
What is "nature vs. nurture"?
Alfred Bandura taught that humans learn much from observing others' behavior and memorably conducted one experiment that featured people fighting an inflated ______.
What is a clown?
This condition was known as the appearance of a physical disorder without a physical cause, usually occurring in women... supposedly.
What is hysteria?
What are two ways to enhance your brain's health?
What is: healthy diet, deep breathing, drinking water, exercise
Maslow thought that if a person has become everything she or he can, as alive and unique as that person can be, than that person has arrived at the ultimate stage of ______.
What is self-actualization?
When Pavlov's dogs responded to a bell by coming for dinner, he called this what kind of response?
What is conditioned?
During Greece's Golden Age, this type of personality was considered the most pleasant and easy-going, and the word literally comes from the word for blood.
What is sanguine?
This is the wavy gray matter which is the outer layer of the brain.
What is the cerebral cortex?
This is the term for variations in speech that do not include words, like pitch of voice, loudness, rhythm, hesitation..
What is paralanguage?
This psychologist broke away from Freud's group and taught that each person is a unified, whole being when everything within the person works together: physical, conscious, and unconscious. He said that all people have weaknesses to overcome, introduced the concept of lifestyle and the effect of birth order.
Who was Alfred Adler?
This was a famous English asylum where inmates were horribly mistreated.
What was Bedlam?